With the still‐growing prevalence of obesity worldwide, major efforts are made to understand
the various behavioral, environmental, and genetic factors that promote excess fat gain …

The US remains at the forefront of a global obesity epidemic with a significant negative
impact on public health. While it is well known that a balance between energy intake and …

Energy homeostasis is regulated by homeostatic and nonhomeostatic reward circuits which
are closely integrated and interrelated. Before, during, and after meals, peripheral nutritional …

Human food intake is regulated by physiological energy homeostatic mechanisms and
hedonic mechanisms. These are affected by both very short-term and longer-term calorie …

The concept of addiction is loaded with connotations and is often used for its political as
much as its medical utility. The scientific case for'food addiction'as a clinical phenotype …

Objectives: This chapter reviews brain imaging findings in anorexia and bulimia nervosa
which characterize brain circuitry that may contribute to the pathophysiology of eating …

This article summarizes presentations from “Neurocognition: The Food–Brain Connection”
symposium held at the ASN Scientific Sessions and Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology …

Traditionally there has been a tendency to focus on peripheral “bottom-up” feeding-related
signals and their resulting downstream actions on hypothalamic centers when studying the …

There is increasing evidence demonstrating that reward-related motivational food intake is
closely connected with the brain's homeostatic system of energy balance and that this …

Motivated behaviors are often initiated in response to perturbations of homeostasis. Indeed,
animals and humans have fundamental drives to procure (appetitive behaviors) and …